ASUS PGDC Deluxe Bios 1008-03 beta

Although Intel's 925X, 915P and 915G chipsets claimed to only

support DDR2 400/533, ASUS engineers successfully unleashed their

true potential. This model offers native DDR2 600, eliminating the

bottleneck when overclocking both the CPU and memory. With current

processors supporting 800MHz FSB, ASUS motherboards, the only

solutions with native DDR2 600, will provide superior performance

for the most demanding applications.

High Definition Audio

Enjoy high-end sound system on your PC! The onboard 8-channel HD

audio (High Definition Audio, previously codenamed Azalia) CODEC

enables high-quality 192KHz/24-bit audio output, jack-sensing

feature, retasking functions and multi-streaming technology that

simultaneously sends different audio streams to different

destinations. You can now talk to your partners on the headphone

while playing a multi-channel network games. All of these are done

on one computer. The Dolby Digital Live technology from Dolby Lab

encodes the multi-channel audio source into AC-3 bit-stream and

outputs it to S/PDIF port in real time.

Serial ATA & IDE RAID

The onboard ITE 8212F RAID controllers and the Intel ICH6R

southbridge provide the complete solution to your RAID requirements

on different storage standards. The Intel ICH6R supports RAID 0, 1

and Intel Matrix RAID Technology on 4 Serial ATA ports. For IDE

hard disk drives, the ITE 8212F controller provides RAID 0, 1 , 0+1

functionality for two ATA133 channels.

ASUS Q-Fan2

ASUS Q-Fan2 technology intelligently adjusts both CPU fan and

chassis fan speeds according to system loading to ensure quiet,

cool and efficient operation.

S/PDIF-out on Back I/O Port

This motherboard provides convenient connectivity to external home

theater audio systems via an optical or coaxial S/PDIF-out

(SONY-PHILIPS Digital Interface) jack. It allows to transfer

digital audio without converting to analog format and keeps the

best signal quality.

Max. 8 USB 2.0 ports supports

USB 2.0 is the latest connectivity standard for next generation

components and peripherals. Backwards compatible with current USB

1.1 peripherals, USB 2.0 delivers transfer speeds up to 40 times

faster at 480Mb/s, for easy connectivity and ultra-fast data

transfers.

ASUS CrashFree BIOS2

The CrashFree BIOS2 feature now includes the BIOS auto-recovery

function in a support CD. Users can reboot their system through the

support CD when a bootable disk is not available, and go through

the simple BIOS auto-recovery process.

ASUS motherboards now enable users to enjoy this protection feature

without the need to pay for an optional ROM.